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Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
Nicknames for Prague have included Praga mater urbium/Praha matka mest
in Latin/Czech, Stovezata Praha ("City of a Hundred Spires") in Czech
or Zlate mesto/Goldene Stadt ("Golden City") in Czech/German.

Situated on the Vltava River in central
Bohemia, Prague has been the political, cultural and economic centre of
the Czech state for more than 1100 years. For many decades during the
Gothic and Renaissance eras, Prague was the permanent seat of two Holy
Roman Emperors and thus was also the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

Today, the city proper is home to more than
1.2 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a
population of over 1.9 million.

Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of
Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites,
making the city one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe, receiving more than 4.1 million international visitors annually, as of 2009.

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Prague has highway connections from five major directions.
Unfortunately, the highway network in the Czech Republic is quite
incomplete and some highways are old and in poor condition. Thus, the
highway connection from Prague to the border of the Czech Republic is
available only in two directions: southeast and southwest.

The southwestern highway (D5; international E50) leads through Plzen to Germany.
The D5 highway continues in Germany as A6. Riding from the state border
to Prague takes about an hour and a half (160 km / 99 mi).

The southeastern highway (D1) is the Czech
Republic's oldest and most used highway but is in a rather poor
condition. It leads through Brno to Bratislava in Slovakia. It offers a
good connection to Vienna, Budapest and all traffic from the east. It
runs for 250 km (155 mi), and usually takes over two hours.

To the northwest, you can take highway D8
(E55), but it is not complete to the German border. It ends now at
Lovosice (about 60 km (37 mi) from Prague and starts again in Usti nad
Labem and continues to the northern Germany via A17 (Dresden, Berlin,
Leipzig).

To the northeast, you can take highway R10
(E65). It is strictly speaking a motorway, not a highway, but it has
four lanes and differs little from a highway. It leads from Liberec to
Turnov. It is not regarded as an important access route, as there are no
major cities in this direction (Zittau in Germany, some cities in
Poland), but it offers a good connection to the Czech mountains Jizerske
hory and Krkonose (Riesengebirge) with the best Czech skiing resorts.

To the east, you can take the newly completed D11 (E67), which goes to Hradec Kralove. It leads to Poland.

Czech highways are under development (D8 and
D11 are being extended, D3 to Ceske Budejovice and Linz is supposed to
be completed in 2020) so things will get better. Unless there are road
works, there are only seldom traffic jams on Czech highways, with the
exception of D1 near Prague (and near Mirosovice (direction to Ceske
Budejovice and Linz, and Brno, too)).

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